A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest. Part I. Disease of the Lung and Windpipe by William Stokes, Dr. Acland and Alfred Hudson (Ed.) - 1882

London: The New Sydenham Society , 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good-. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt Sydenham logo centre fr. (Series binding). top outer corner badly bumped and rubbed, front joint tender with some cloth splitting. half-title + f/piece engr. portrait of Stokes with tanned tissue guard + liii + 596, all edges red; light tanning to t.p. + verso fr. end-paper and half title, occ. spots elsewhere but far less than usual for this series, fr. end-gutter opening. Unusually lacking a series half-title with Volume number, though no sign of this being removed. 14 cm x 22 cm

Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1837. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First American edition (preceded by Dublin edition printed the same year). Front joint split (easily repaired - we are happy to include this service as part of the purchase price, or sell as is if you prefer to work directly with a bindery of your choice), minor wear to corners, front & end matter foxed. 1837 Hard Cover. xv, 360 pp. 8vo. Cloth boards, brown morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. One of two important works written by Stokes on cardiac and pulmonary diseases. Originally published in 1837, reissued in 1882 by the New Sydenham Society. Stokes also wrote one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope. Garrison-Morton 2213: "Stokes, most prominent of the Irish school of medicine, established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described by Laennec as the first, his… Read More